Seized Drugs

December 14, 1985

LIMA, PERU — Sixty secret airstrips destroyed. Nine tons of coca paste seized. Interior Minister Abel Salinas gave that report on anti-drug operations since August to the Chamber of Deputies. He said narcotics police found four camps that had laboratories to process the coca paste into cocaine. The paste that was seized had a potential value of $40 million, Salinas said. The United States is helping Peru and Bolivia in the drug fight.